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The British Empire and the ‘special relationship’

After David Cameron’s recent political gaffe, in which he referred to Britain as the ‘junior partner’ to the US, in regards to the transatlantic alliance, it raises the question of what the so-called ‘special relationship’ has truly represented in history.

The close alliance between Britain and the US was something of a ‘forced’ affair during the Second World War. It was essentially a marriage of convenience between two great world powers, who knew that they could not defeat Nazism unless More